Speed Curve

MAY 29, 2022

Traffic size. We see a large variety of sites at SpeedCurve, representing an assortment of countries, industry segments, traffic levels and more. Traffic fluctuates based on the hour of the day, day of the week, and due to seasonality. Not all metrics are created equal and I try to avoid picking favorites. Key findings.

Traffic 52

Traffic Metrics Monitoring Performance 52

Speed Curve

JULY 26, 2022

Fixing high-traffic but poorly performing areas of your site will improve your overall metrics – and create a faster, better experience for more of your users. You can then prioritize and focus on these areas to improve important metrics like Largest Contentful Paint. Change summary metrics on your charts.

Testing 52

Testing Performance Metrics Traffic 52

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 28, 2022

This genuinely surprises me, because LCP is the simplest metric to improve. The metrics above don’t matter in and of themselves, but it’s going to help your LCP if you can get them as low as possible. Plan in suitable buffer time for traffic issues, etc. background-image: url(); The WebPageTest comparison. First Paint.

Virtualization 330

Virtualization Google Metrics Testing 330

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

We love the idea of having a lean, shared set of metrics that we can all rally around – not to mention having a broader conversation about web performance that includes teams throughout an organization. We’ve had some time to evaluate and explore these metrics, and we're committed to transparently discussing their pros and cons.

Metrics 109

Metrics Entertainment Google Monitoring 109

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The change may be related to volume ("I'm seeing a lot more users from Ireland today" or "We are getting a lot more traffic to our landing pages") or it may be related to a metric ("LCP has really slowed down after this last release, and it looks to be driven by slower backend time").

Traffic 52

Traffic Monitoring Metrics Performance 52

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The metrics that we report against implicitly cleave these into different "camps", leaving us thinking about pre- and post-load as distinct universes. Objections to the comparison are legion. It may seem that web performance comprises two disciplines: Optimising page load. Optimising post-load interactions.

Performance 104

Performance Latency Architecture Network 104

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 11, 2019

This helps us do things like: correlate various performance metrics with user behavior, understand the user journey and popular pages so you can better model your synthetic testing, and. A lot of performance users really love that they can track business metrics specific to a session alongside their performance data.

Retail 59

Retail Traffic Media Metrics 59

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I asked around and heard that they are still working on it, but the AWS hiring freeze means that they don’t have the headcount they expected and are making slow progress on an API, more detailed metrics, and scope 3, which everyone is waiting for. Portfolio is currently reducing Amazons carbon footprint by 19 Million Metric Tons of CO2e.

AWS 64

AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience.

Media 70

Media Tuning Metrics Google 70

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Typically, I’m looking for performance trends, doing some level of competitive comparison, or digging through data for a company that doesn’t yet have a proper real-user monitoring ( RUM ) solution in place. For example, the CrUX data is contained in one massive table, as well as broken up into smaller tables for each country’s traffic.

Traffic 56

Traffic Metrics Efficiency Monitoring 56

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With a simple example such as this, it would not necessarily be expected for the additional network traffic to be significant between the 2 approaches. Stored Procedures and Client SQL comparison To test the stored procedures and client implementations, we ran both workloads against a system equipped with Intel Xeon 8280L.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

SREs face ever more challenging situations as environment complexity increases, applications scale up, and organizations grow: Growing dependency graphs result in blind spots and the inability to correlate performance metrics with user experience. Additionally, you can easily use any previously defined metrics and SLOs from your environments.

DevOps 219

DevOps Latency Traffic Best Practices 219

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

In particular, the collected measurements include the three Core Web Vitals metrics measured for each session. In recent years, these metrics have become the cornerstone of modern Web performance analysis: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) , First Input Delay (FID) , Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS). Large preview ). Large preview ).

Google 128

Google Performance Website Mobile 128

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

With your RUM Compare dashboard, you can easily generate side-by-side comparisons for any two cohorts of data. Triage a performance regression related to the latest change or deployment to your site by looking at a before/after comparison. Evaluate CDN performance by exploring the impact of time-of-day traffic patterns.

Traffic 54

Traffic Metrics Speed Mobile 54

Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2021

Organizations that have transitioned to agile software development strategies (including the adoption of a DevOps culture and continuous delivery automation) enforce automated solutions for such decision making—or at the very least, use automation in the gathering of a release-quality metrics.

Software 239

Software Software Strategy Metrics 239

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Automated release inventory and version comparison , which allows teams to easily evaluate the performance of individual release versions, and as needed, roll back to a previous version. Automated release inventory and version comparison. ” – Wim Verhaeghe, KBI-Connect DevOps team lead at Inetum-Realdolmen.

Cloud 167

Cloud DevOps Speed Azure 167

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

framework , the SNMP extensions are a bundle of everything that’s needed (DataSource configuration, a dashboard template, a unified analysis page template, topology definition, entity extraction rules, relevant metric definitions and more) to get going with monitoring. As with other extensions based on the new Dynatrace Extensions 2.0

Network 211

Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 211

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services. These tags will allow us to create dashboards, request attributes or calculate service metrics specifically for our application under test. This allows us to analyze metrics (SLIs) for each individual endpoint URL.

Engineering 192

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 192

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

It’s “single-threaded,” which is how we get the one-way street comparison. Total Blocking Time One thing I know would be more helpful than a set of Core Web Vitals scores from Lighthouse is knowing the time it takes to go from the First Contentful Paint (FCP) to the Time to Interactive (TTI), a metric known as the Total Blocking Time (TBT).

Google 91

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few. In particular, the VMAF metric lies at the core of improving the Netflix member’s streaming video quality. Assembly for two of the metrics (e.g.

Media 171

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. However, there are quite a few high-profile case studies exploring the impact of mobile optimization on key business metrics.

Mobile 134

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 134

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

In fact, there’s great tooling right under the hood of most browsers in DevTools that can do many things that a tried-and-true service like WebPageTest offers, complete with recommendations for improving specific metrics. Certain tools are designed for certain metrics with certain assumptions that produce certain results.

Speed 81

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

People say JAMstack sites are fast — let’s find out why by looking at real performance metrics! We’ll cover common metrics, like Time to First Byte ( TTFB ) among others, then compare data across a wide section of sites to see how different ways to slice those sites up compare. seconds to see primary content. Time To First Byte.

Speed 46

Speed Mobile Metrics Scalability 46

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

On the other hand, when one is interested only in simple additive metrics like total page views or average price of conversion, it is obvious that raw data can be efficiently summarized, for example, on a daily basis or using simple in-stream counters. A group of several such sketches can be used to process range query. Case Study.

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

search traffic. Over the years, I've learned that performance can be mapped to all of these metrics – and almost any other business metric you can think of. To hook different people on performance, you need to understand which metric motivates them. conversions. time on site. page views. user satisfaction.

Performance 40

Performance Metrics Traffic Monitoring 40

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Teams I've consulted are too often wrenched between celebration over "the big rewrite" launch and the morning-after realisation that the new stack is tanking business metrics. Competent managers will begin to look for more general "industry standard" baseline metrics to report against their data. Photo by Jay Heike.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 8, 2019

” The charts below show the improvements over time in the key offline metric, normalised discounted cumulative gain (NDCG), and in gains in bookings achieved online with the deployed models. This comparison highlights how the model is utilising features in the different value ranges. Don’t be a hero, in the beginning.

Network 82

Network Architecture Tuning Traffic 82

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. This reduces friction and commensurately increases "engagement" metrics. [6]. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). How can that be?

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

HTTP/2 versus HTTP/3 protocol stack comparison ( Large preview ). For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. In the early days of the Internet, encrypting traffic was quite costly in terms of processing.

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

For comparison, the same amount of data costs $6.66 This metric is a little difficult to comprehend, so here’s an example: if the average cost of broadband packages in a country is $22, and the average download speed offered by the packages is 10 Mbps, then the cost ‘per megabit per month’ would be $2.20. For comparison, $3.67

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). However, to the firewall, this will look as if a new connection is being used without first using a handshake, which might just as well be an attacker sending malicious traffic. Support is unclear at this time. Nothing has been announced.

Network 105

Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

For web-page loading, this slow-start approach can also affect metrics such as the first contentful paint, because only a small amount of data (tens of to a few hundred KB) can be transferred in the first few round trips. You might have heard the recommendation to keep your critical data to smaller than 14 KB.). Gbps, compared to 11.85

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. DOM complete, time to first byte, first input delay, client CPU and memory usage. Get a free trial of LogRocket today.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

For example we rely on difference-in-differences techniques for unbiased comparisons between the potentially different audiences experiencing each advertising treatment, and these approaches effectively reduce the sample size ( more details for the very interested reader). Are there metrics that can yield a signal faster?

Innovation 243

Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 243

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104